After more than twelve years of marriage, Nicola Eisenschink is unexpectedly left by her husband. As the former journalist tries to piece together the fragments of her life, she remembers an old dream: to feel at home on the water! Determined, the vivacious fifty-year-old sets out to find a suitable houseboat and puts her plan into action. With her cat, Mr. Emma, she moves to the Vierlanden, an area in Hamburg, where her new home, the "Lotte," is located at the end of a dock on the Elbe River. In her floating home, Nicola Eisenschink faces several challenges but also gains many new insights about herself and what is important to her in life. And by the time she successfully gets through her first winter, she knows: I’m not leaving here!.